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Saturday, 28 March 2009

Metamorphosis DAY 2 - Thursday 26 March 2009

Today Graeme, a regular poet at our Moving Voices night, who alsohappens to be a plumber, came and got the water switched on (it hadbeen turned off at the mains when the bailiffs took all the previoustenants kitchen stuff out - eeek). Chris the builder turned up in hisveggie-powered car and got stuck in with the demolition..... he lookedvery happy!

Zigz, Kelly and Tony took hammers to the panelling in what was thebar, which is now going to be the lounge area by the kitchen. LovelyBethyn came along too, she'd been away for a couple of weeks so it wasawesome to see her and she got right down to scraping up carpet foamto get the floor ready for the bamboo flooring! Nina in the meantimecarried on like a whirling dervish with her car-elves getting stufffrom the old place and clearing a few things and she and Donnaheroically moved the smelly compost bin from Bedford Place to Holly'sgarden.

We've taken down some panelling in the old kitchen - these were thereinstead of walls and were pretty doom, so out they've come. Theoriginal plan was to replace them with a stud wall, but once they camedown the window at the back let in so much light, we've decided tomake the kitchen 'part open'. Zigz was not too pleased at first withthe idea of being on show, so we're having blinds we can drop down asa 'do not disturb' measure.

We reckoned that we're actually pretty damn proud of our food andwould like it on display! Plus the extra light saves energy, as doesthe fact that the lounge area can 'borrow' heat from the kitchen -whoop!

The other joyous thing was getting to save nearly £700 on bambooflooring, when we uncovered really nice floorboards in the loungearea, which we're going to sand. An even more sustainable solutionthat the bamboo, as we don't have to buy anything - we just use what'salready there! We're leaving the carpet towards the front though, forsound and heat insulation.

The new building is as random and wonky as the first, more so in factas Graeme and I found a 'secret' pair of little rooms in the basementwhich you can't get into!! Very strange.

Felt like a really productive day and the space feels much biggeralready - if a little messy!